The Audit Program - Footnote Disclosures

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Date Issued 5/02

SECTION III – REPORTING

CHAPTER 3 – FOOTNOTE DISCLOSURES

Disclosure

A governmental entity's reports and statements, both financial and operational, ideally should contain the

information necessary for users--management, the electorate, creditors, grantors, and others--to form an

opinion on the effectiveness of the stewardship exercised by the responsible public officials.

The

responsibility for providing such information is that of management.

However, the auditor should

comment if the data provided is insufficient to disclose any matters that may have a material effect upon

the financial reports.

Adequate disclosure is that which is required by generally accepted auditing standards as promulgated by

the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), as well as adherence to the accounting

standards promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Disclosure should be

fair, manageable and reasonably complete; not complex or difficult to understand.

Weight should be given to materiality, which is the relative importance or relevance of an item included

in or omitted from a financial or operating report. There are no universal ratios or percentages that can be

used as standards of materiality for financial or operational processes or transactions. Materiality should

be based on judgment. Auditors should reference the AICPA Statement of Position (SOP) 98-03 and the

AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide, Audits of State and Local Governmental Units for guidance on

materiality. The AICPA plans to issue a guide during the summer, 2002 which will be updated to include

GASB 34 specific issues.

Six specific indicators of materiality which can be used individually or in combinations are:

1.

Absolute dollar amount.

2.

Ratio of amount of an item to an appropriate base figure.

3.

Length of life of an asset.

4.

Importance of the item to the accomplishment of the mission.

5.

Importance to the maintenance of adequate controls, such as a pattern of small

discrepancies.

6.

The characteristic of the items involved, such as indications of malfeasance or

misfeasance.

Events that occur subsequent to the end of the period under audit may have a material effect on the

operations of the entity or on its operational or financial reports. Such events may affect financial reports

directly, may affect the entity with indirect effects on financial reports, or may affect conditions under

which the operations take place. If such events occur they should be disclosed in the audit report either

by revision of the financial reports or by commentary in the auditor's report.

The following footnotes for the Schedules of Expenditures of Awards and Financial Assistance are

required by OMB Circular A-133, Sec. 310. The sample financial statement disclosures presented in this

chapter supplement the sample notes reflected in the Sample CAFR on the NJSCPA web site.

The

sample disclosures presented in this section are not intended to be a boilerplate and should be included

only

if they apply to that district’s CAFR. Additional information and samples of the same disclosures

can be found in the GFOA Governmental Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting ( the “Blue

Book”), GASB Codification of Governmental Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, ASBO

International Self-Evaluation Worksheet, etc. Included at the end of each sample footnote is the source of

reference (i.e. GASB Codification Section etc.).

GASB 34 model

–Information on additional disclosures for capital assets and long-term debt is available

on the DOE Finance/GASB 34 web site

http://www.state.nj.us/njded/finance/fp/gasb34/

. District staff

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and auditors should reference GASB 38, Certain Financial Statement Note Disclosures for further

guidance on financial statement disclosures. The following excerpt from GASB 34, paragraph 144 is to

be followed by those districts implementing GASB 34:

“Adjustments to governmental, proprietary, and fiduciary funds resulting from a change

to comply with this Statement should be treated as adjustments of prior periods, and

financial statements presented for the periods affected should be restated. If restatement

of the financial statements for prior periods is not practical, the cumulative effect of

applying this Statement should be reported as a restatement of beginning fund balance or

fund net assets, as appropriate, for the earliest period restated (generally, the current

period). In the first period that this statement is applied, the financial statements should

disclose the nature of the restatement and its effect.” (GASB 34, ¶ 144)

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SAMPLE FOOTNOTES FOR SCHEDULES OF EXPENDITURES OF AWARDS

AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Anytown School District

Notes to Schedules of Expenditures of Awards and Financial Assistance

June 30, 200X

NOTE l. GENERAL

The accompanying schedules of expenditures of awards and financial assistance present the activity of all

federal and state award programs of the Board of Education, Anytown School District. The Board of

Education is defined in Note l to the Board's general-purpose financial statements (

GASB 34 Model

–

basic financial statements). All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies,

as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is

included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.

NOTE 2. BASIS OF ACCOUNTING

The accompanying schedules of expenditures of awards and financial assistance are presented using the

modified accrual basis of accounting with the exception of programs recorded in the food service fund,

which are presented using the accrual basis of accounting and those recorded in the special revenue fund,

which are presented using the budgetary basis of accounting. These bases of accounting are described in

Note 1 to the Board's general-purpose financial statements (

GASB 34 Model

– basic financial

statements).

NOTE 3. RELATIONSHIP TO GENERAL-PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Amounts reported in the accompanying schedules agree with amounts reported in the Board's

general-purpose financial statements.

The general-purpose financial statements present the special

revenue fund on both a GAAP basis and a budgetary basis. The special revenue fund is presented in the

accompanying schedules on the grant accounting budgetary basis which recognizes encumbrances as

expenditures and also recognizes the related revenues, whereas the GAAP basis does not. The net

adjustment to reconcile from the budgetary basis to the GAAP basis is $____________. See Note 1 for a

reconciliation of the budgetary basis to the GAAP basis of accounting for the special revenue fund.

Awards and financial assistance revenues are reported in the Board's general-purpose financial statements

on a GAAP basis as follows:

Federal

State

Total

General Fund

$

$

$

Special Revenue Fund

Debt Service Fund

Food Service Fund

Total Awards & Financial Assistance

$

$

$

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SAMPLE FOOTNOTES FOR SCHEDULES OF EXPENDITURES OF AWARDS

AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (CONT’D)

Anytown School District

Notes to Schedules of Expenditures of Awards and Financial Assistance (Cont’d)

June 30, 200X

NOTE 4. RELATIONSHIP TO FEDERAL AND STATE FINANCIAL REPORTS

Amounts reported in the accompanying schedules agree with the amounts reported in the related federal

and state financial reports.

NOTE 5. OTHER

Revenues and expenditures reported under the Food Distribution Program represent current year value

received and current year distributions respectively. The amount reported as TPAF Pension Contributions

represents the amount paid by the state on behalf of the District for the year ended June 30, 200X. TPAF

Social Security Contributions represents the amount reimbursed by the state for the employer's share of

social security contributions for TPAF members for the year ended June 30, 200X.

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SAMPLE GENERAL-PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOOTNOTES

Auditor’s Note

– The following POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS

information is Statewide data and should be utilized in the 2001-2002

CAFR.

NOTE

X

. POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS

Chapter 384 of Public Laws 1987 and Chapter 6 of Public Laws 1990 required Teachers’ Pensions and

Annuity Fund (TPAF) and the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), respectively, to fund post-

retirement medical benefits for those State employees who retire after accumulating 25 years of credited

service or on a disability retirement. As of June 30, 2001, there were 51,482 retirees eligible for post-

retirement medical benefits. The cost of these benefits is funded through contributions by the State in

accordance with Chapter 62, P.L. 1994. Funding of post-retirement medical premiums changed from a

prefunding basis to a pay-as-you-go basis beginning in Fiscal Year 1994 with an additional contribution

beginning in Fiscal Year 1996 to maintain a medical reserve of one half of 1% of the active State payroll.

The State contributed $85.4 million to the PERS and $175.6 million to the TPAF in Fiscal Year 2001 for

post-retirement medical benefits.

The State is also responsible for the cost attributable to Chapter 126, P.L. 1992, which provides free

health benefits to members of PERS and the Alternate Benefit Program who retired from a board of

education or county college with 25 years of service. In fiscal year 2001, the State paid $34.5 million

toward Chapter 126 benefits for 6,917 eligible retired members.

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(z))

Auditor’s Note

– The following sample footnote disclosures are notes

that are frequently omitted from school district CAFR’s filed with the

Department of Education. If applicable, we

recommend

the following

disclosures are included in the notes to the financial statements if

applicable to that district.

NOTE

X

. DEFERRED COMPENSATION

The Board offers its employees a choice of the following deferred compensation plans created in

accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 403(b). The plans, which are administered by the entities

listed below, permits participants to defer a portion of their salary until future years. Amounts deferred

under the plans are not available to employees until termination, retirement, death or unforeseeable

emergency. The plan administrators are as follows:

(List Plan Administrators Here)

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(u))

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X

Applicable footnote number in the district's CAFR.

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NOTE

X

. COMPENSATED ABSENCES

The District accounts for compensated absences (e.g., unused vacation, sick leave) as directed by

Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 16 (GASB 16), “Accounting for Compensated

Absences”.

A liability for compensated absences attributable to services already rendered and not

contingent on a specific event that is outside the control of the employer and employee is accrued as

employees earn the rights to the benefits.

District employees are granted varying amounts of vacation and sick leave in accordance with the

District’s personnel policy. Upon termination, employees are paid for accrued vacation. The District’s

policy permits employees to accumulate unused sick leave and carry forward the full amount to

subsequent years.

Upon retirement employees shall be paid by the District for the unused sick leave in

accordance with the District’s agreements with the various employee unions.

The liability for vested compensated absences of the governmental fund types is recorded in the general

long-term debt account group.

The current portion of the compensated absences balance of the

governmental funds is not considered material to the applicable funds total liabilities, and therefore is not

shown separately from the long-term liability balance of compensated absences. [

GASB 34 model

-This

note would be modified to reflect that the liability is reported in the Statement of Net Assets.]

The liability for vested compensated absences of the proprietary fund types is recorded within those funds

as the benefits accrue to employees. As of June 30, 200X, a liability existed for compensated absences in

the Food Service Fund in the amount $XX,XXX.

(GASB Cod. Sec.1600.119, C60)

NOTE

X

. CAPITAL RESERVE ACCOUNT

A capital reserve account was established by the ____________ of ____________ Board of Education by

inclusion of $_______________ on __________, 200X for the accumulation of funds for use as capital

outlay expenditures in subsequent fiscal years. The capital reserve account is maintained in the general

fund and its activity is included in the general fund annual budget.

Funds placed in the capital reserve account are restricted to capital projects in the district's approved Long

Range Facilities Plan (LRFP) and updated annually in the Quality Assurance Annual Report (QAAR).

Upon submission of the LRFP to the department, a district may deposit funds into the capital reserve at

any time upon board resolution through the transfer of undesignated, unreserved general fund balance or

of excess undesignated, unreserved general fund balance that is anticipated in the budget certified for

taxes. Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 6:23A-5.1(d)7, the balance in the account cannot at any time exceed the local

support costs of uncompleted capital projects in its approved LRFP.

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 20__, the District had actual interest earnings of $_________. By

board resolution, the district

withdrew $____________

from the capital reserve for use in a DOE

approved facilities project, consistent with the district's Long Range Facilities Plan.

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NOTE

X

. CAPITAL RESERVE ACCOUNT (cont’d)

Under CEIFA, the Board of Education established a Special Revenue Early Childhood Program aid

(ECPA) Capital Reserve Account with the inclusion of $_____________ in the 19__-__ special revenue

fund budget. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 20__, the ECPA Capital Reserve Account had actual

interest earnings of $____________.

The Balance in the ECPA Capital Reserve Account at June 30,

2002 was $-0-. [If not, zero, explain if the district had a DOE approved lease purchase agreement, or if

not, why the balance was not zero.]

(State Department of Education & GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(o))

NOTE

X

. RISK MANAGEMENT

The District is exposed to various risks of loss related to torts; theft of, damage to, and destruction of

assets; errors and omissions; injuries to employees; and natural disasters.

Property and Liability Insurance

- The District maintains commercial insurance coverage for property,

liability, student accident and surety bonds. A complete schedule of insurance coverage can be found in

the Statistical Section of this Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.

New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Insurance

- The District has elected to fund its New Jersey

Unemployment Compensation Insurance under the "Benefit Reimbursement Method". Under this plan,

the District is required to reimburse the New Jersey Unemployment Trust Fund for benefits paid to its

former employees and charged to its account with the State. The District is billed quarterly for amounts

due to the State. The following is a summary of District contributions, employee contributions,

reimbursements to the State for benefits paid and the ending balance of the District's expendable trust

fund for the current and previous two years:

Fiscal Year

District

Contributions

Employee

Contributions

Amount

Reimbursed

Ending

Balance

2001 - 2002

$

$

$

$

2000 - 2001

1999 - 2000

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(a))

NOTE

X

. INTERFUND RECEIVABLES AND PAYABLES

The following interfund balances remained on the balance sheet at June 30, 20__:

Interfund

Interfund

Fund

Receivable

Payable

General Fund

$

$

Special Revenue Fund

Capital Projects Fund

Debt Service Fund

Enterprise Fund

Trust and Agency Fund

__________

_________

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.106(p))

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NOTE

X

. DEFICIT FUND BALANCES

The District has an accumulated deficit of $________________ in the Capital Projects Fund as of June

30, 20__. This deficit is the result of the _______ of ___________ utilizing temporary financing to fund

expenditures for certain capital projects. As the District permanently finances these appropriations the

District will realize as revenues the proceeds of the financing. This deficit does not indicate that the

District is facing financial difficulties and is a permitted practice under generally accepted accounting

principles.

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.106(o))

NOTE

X

. DEFICIT RETAINED EARNINGS

The Food Service Enterprise Fund has a cumulative retained earnings deficit of $_______ as of June 30,

20__. This deficit will be provided for in the 20X1-20X2 General Fund Budget.

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.106(o))

NOTE

X

. FUND BALANCE APPROPRIATED

General Fund

- Of the $________________ General Fund fund balance at June 30, 20__,

$____________ is reserved for encumbrances; $___________ has been legally restricted in accordance

with

N.J.A.C.

6:19-2.4(h) as the 20X1-20X2 additional spending proposal was not fully expended and

$_______________ has been legally reserved for tuition adjustment in accordance with

N.J.A.C.

6A:23-

3.1(f)(8); $_____________________ is reserved as excess surplus in accordance with

N.J.S.A

. 18A:7F-7

($_________ of the total reserve for excess surplus has been appropriated and included as anticipated

revenue for the year ending June 30, 20__); $__________________ has been reserved in the Capital

Reserve Account; $___________________ has been appropriated and included as anticipated revenue for

the year ending June 30, 20__; and $__________________ is unreserved and undesignated.

Debt Service Fund

- The Debt Service Fund fund balance at June 30, 20__ of $___________ is

unreserved and undesignated.

(GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(o))

NOTE

X

. CALCULATION OF EXCESS SURPLUS

In accordance with N.J.S.A. 18A:7F-7, the designation for Reserved Fund Balance -- Excess Surplus is a

required calculation pursuant to the New Jersey Comprehensive Educational Improvement and Financing

Act of 1996 (CEIFA). New Jersey school districts are required to reserve General Fund fund balance at

the fiscal year end of June 30 if they did not appropriate a required minimum amount as budgeted fund

balance in their subsequent years' budget. The excess fund balance at June 30, 20__ is $________.

(State Department of Education & GASB Cod. Sec. 2300.107(o))

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